Project Do Better agrees, which is why Phase I started with public health care, especially focusing on Black women. The Project Do Better manifesto, a free manual for community members and organizers, is available in PDF, Epub, or even mobi formats, on the ShiraDest blog or from various sites, never for money.
#ProjectDoBetter supports Black women writing about our story and working to help all of our society Do Better.
Some wonder by we all bleed the same color blood why do Black women in the medical agenda experience much more disparities in regular medical and gynecological care?
Racism and sexism is the reason why.
It’s called Misogynoir. Misogynoir is a term referring to misogyny and other forms of discrimination directed towards solely toward black women. It when race and gender both play a double oppressive role.
Black women are five times more likely than white women to die as a result of complications in their pregnancy.
Reproductive health research also reports that Black women have a higher risk of miscarriage with both spontaneous and in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancy. For full-term pregnancies, stillbirth is also twice as likely to occur in Black women compared with white women.
Reproductive conditions such as fibroids are three times more likely to occur in Black women than white women. Similarly, endometriosis is traditionally…
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Project Do Better agrees, which is why Phase I started with public health care, especially focusing on Black women.
#ProjectDoBetter supports Black women writing about our story and working to help all of society Do Better.
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Exactly.
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As Unholy points out, Black women have some of the worst health outcomes in this country, which is why we need to work together more both as a community, and with other communities, to change that.
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